Rust's Family Tree
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A hand-made chart traces Rust back through concrete ancestors and shows actual inheritance lines: hand-traced family tree lists direct influences like Haskell, Erlang, ML/SML/OCaml, Scheme, C, C++, Objective C, C#, Limbo and ultimately Fortran at the root. The work comes from taking a generated graph and verifying each link by hand, producing a visual diagram that exists and validates those claims, and notes the surprising absence of Python and Ruby from Rust’s lineage.
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